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Surviving Your Next Family Gathering
If it’s Easter, chances are you spent yesterday sitting on a Megabus stranded in a sea of other people on their way to the house of the nearest relative who knows how to hardboil an egg. You’ve been preparing the speech you’ll casually rattle off to assure your relatives that everything is going just fine. Last night you probably slept on a four poster twin bed next to a cousin you don’t really talk to, on an identical four poster twin bed, in your grandparents' guest room.
By Sidney Morss8 years ago in The Swamp
Jeremy Corbyn and Nuclear Weapons: The Red Button Excuse
Jeremy Corbyn was made leader of the Labour Party on the 12th of September, 2015. Ever since then, he has been a talisman for social care, those opposing austerity in all areas of society, and the younger generation seeing the possibility of their vote making an actual change in society.
By Dan Maughan8 years ago in The Swamp
Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders Are Cut From the Same Cloth (an Essay)
Traditions of thought, such as liberalism and realism, have recently evolved into not quite as easily definable concepts as they relate to modern political thought movements. Aspects of the modern political movements as seen today seem to lend themselves to a more totalitarian quality than in the past. First, the protesting of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the fact that social media, a technology and thus a liberalizing tool, is not used to flatten the world is a small example of how the dominant tradition of thought today is not so easily definable. But, more crucially, modern political movements, such as the Bernie movement and the Trump movement, as they pertain to the destabilization of the traditions of thought, prove that there is a contemporary appetite for totalitarianism.
By Graeme Mills8 years ago in The Swamp
World War 3 and How to Stop It: We Are Not Superior, We Are the Same!
Let’s get this straight! There are Palestinian children being jailed in Israel, Europe is more unstable than any time in the past 70 years, Russian spies are being poisoned with nerve agent in Salisbury, and children in Yemen are being murdered, without hesitation or regret, by an evil Saudi regime.
By Johnny Vedmore8 years ago in The Swamp
The Finer Points of Merit
Merit means to be judged by your skills and accomplishments. To be judged on merit also implies you are judged by the content of your character. Merit means that you can rest assured that hard work is rewarded. Jobs hire based on merit, not looks. Merit means that you get into an educational program of your choice based on your hard work, not your affirmative action clauses. We would like to build a society based on merit exclusively and not how much money you have. As it is now, we are eroding our civilization by not relying on merit.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
A Talk Between a White, Big Sister and Her Younger, Half Black Brother
Never once did I think this day would come. Never once did I think that I, at age 22, a white female, would have to sit my little brother down, age 14, half black, looks mostly black, and have “the talk” with him.
By Kenzie Lane Stapleton8 years ago in The Swamp
The Fight for Free Speech
Fellow Millennials, It’s come to my attention that whether you’re a die-hard Sanders socialism supporter, a defender of Clinton’s Liberal allegiances, or a rider on the Republican Trump train, we all want to have our opinions heard (and—optimistically—respected). However, if we intend to preserve any value we hold in our FIRST amendment rights, we have to foremost be open (although maybe not always accepting) to all other viewpoints that oppose our own in order to protect it. If you’re facing challenges on your campus, I’ve included a few tips below that I’ve learned from being involved in the battle for freedom of ideas, opinions, and any other form of speech at my university, Cal State Fullerton.
By Hannah Reams8 years ago in The Swamp
World War 2 and World War 3
World wars usually get started because one country is busy invading another country. World War 2 happened because Hitler got intense about his desire for global domination, which resulted in how he signed treaties with Mussolini and Japan, other fascist world powers at the time. Hitler decided he was Führer (supreme leader). Hitler was a delusional occultist and statesman because he wanted power unto himself. He wanted to take away the powers of the common people in his bid for global domination. Hitler roped the former Soviet Union into helping him by signing a treaty with the Soviets since Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in The Swamp
Most Famous Political Writers of All Time
Political writers are seen as protestors who protest through their writing. Intelligent, passionate, and inspiring, the world has come across some of the best writers in politics that we've ever seen. From years ago to recent days, these individuals have placed the most powerful words through pen and onto paper and made a difference—impacting people's perspectives. The majority of their writing would usually fall back to the political incidences that would take place during the time, and as their writing affected the people and their views, these are the type of political writes who've earned the title of one of the best.
By George Nekilan8 years ago in The Swamp
